We met at the opera bar for a well deserved drink before heading to the wedding on the zoo ferry. Yes a ferry! The views from the venue were magnificant. The wedding was outdoors on the grass with views of the harbour bridge and the city and the opera house. The weather was fantastic too. The sun shone all day. There were kookaburras in the trees and wild rabbits on the lawn too (they weren’t invited, they just gate crashed). The ceremony was lovely, they had written their own vows and by the end of them there was barely a dry eye in the crowd. The food was a BBQ, steak, prawns etc and the champagne flowed at the free bar. They really know how to do a wedding in Sydney. At 10ish pm water taxis brought us back to the city where we had a few scoops in the Shangri La hotel. The bar shut early enough and we headed home.. yeah right we did. We headed to an irish bar in Newtown called Kellys. A great night was had to top off a truely out of this world day.
Archive for February, 2008
Yesterday it rained, and then it rained some more and then it rained in between the thunder and lightening and then it rained some more. We bought the coolest umbrellas ever in a 2 dollar shop. We call them our Mardi Gras unbrellas cos they are rainbow colours. The three of us in the hostel have them and we’re bringing them to the wedding today. We are going to be sooo cool 
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Thankfully today it is sunny. I’ve just come back from the hair dressers where they made me look absolutley fabulous ( I know hard to believe I can look even more fabulous ;)). We’re getting ready soon and then we start our trip to the wedding. We have to get a train to the city, meet some friends in the Opera bar (beside the Opera house suprisingly) and then we get a boat to the wedding. It’s beside the zoo and is supposed to have amazing views of the city. We stay there until 10pm and then we have water Limos booked to bring us back to the most exclusive hotel in Sydney the Shangri La. We have an area reserved in the bar on the top floor with full windows from floor to ceiling over looking the harbour area. I’m going to try stay relatively sober for a while so that I can get some shots :). The Shangri La doesn’t normally take group bookings but they made an exception. Little do they know what they’re letting themselves in for. 40-50 drunken irish/aussies singing every irish trad song under the sun. I can’t wait.
I arrived off my 29 hour flight on Monday shattered and went straight to bed for a few hours. Got up and headed into the harbour to see the QE2. My friend had told me it was there and it was leaving for her last ever voyage. Got there and took some shots of it docked near the bridge. As I was about to leave I spotted a wharf where you could see the back of the boat through this 6ft high dirty glass. I was trying to take shots over the glass using live view but couldn’t really do it. I then climbed up on top of a bench and was shooting away until the security guards told me to get down. There was a press guy in an ideal position in front of the glass. The security guard who gave out to me called me over and let me in with the press guy. Woohoo. I had the perfect spot as the 4 tugs arrived and towed the QE2 from the port and off out to see on her last ever voyage ( I overheard someone say she was being sold as a hotel) .
Yesterday I went to Palm beach (Home and Away beach) for the day. The sand was so hot it was burning my feet. I could get used to this holiday thing